Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

You also say on page 26 the most difficult relationship was with the ECB. Should a lot of those issues not have been sorted out when we joined the single currency, that we could have assumed that the single currency would be the lender of last resort instead of the fatuous relationship that you describe on page 26? We should have had a working relationship because it was part of the European currency and it's only late in the day that Mr. Trichet says no Irish bank should fail and there's even doubts as to whether he issued that in any documents. Was it not a normal part of being in the single currency to have all those issues resolved?